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Past Business Plan Competition Winners
The 2007 Winners
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First Place tie: Logmedia
Kevin Prince
Alison Pellingra
Emily Wasco
Evan Olesh
Janet Levine
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First Place tie: Zapdot Interactive, LLC
Michael Carriere
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3rd place: Funk n’ Waffles
Adam Gold
Kyle Corea
Andy Sick
Mary Stotler
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4th Place: Dynamic Tint Systems
Vivek Surreddi
Fern Langham
Xiao Yu
Charles D’Alessio |
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Entrepreneurial Spirit Award:
Mosaic Mall
Penelope Daniels
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Entrepreneurial Spirit Award:
Impression, LLC
Ran Liu
Miriam Haile
Ge Mu
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Dreamer & Doer Award:
Fair Trade Holdings
Pedro Tichauer
Maio Aguilar |
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Creative Excellence Award:
FlauntIt.com
Daniel Wiener
Neel Patel
Sebastion Gallegoes
Joseph Einav |
The 2006 Winners
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First Place: Fresh Cut Florals
Erica Fand, Shelley Kohan, Meghan Kohl, Lauren Kopach and Erin Wilson
The demand for lasting air freshener products that require minimal maintenance has grown exponentially as consumers lead fuller lives. Simultaneously, consumers have demonstrated increased awareness of and a desire to add ambiance and personality to their homes through décor purchases.
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Second Place: Spiral Software Systems
Joshua Wein and Reuben Kerben
Spiral Systems is a provider of affordable, web-based school information systems specifically designed for K-12 private and independent schools. Spiral’s state-of-the-art system increases student participation, parental involvement, and teacher collaboration by providing email, calendaring, file storage and sharing, school directory, teacher web pages, class pages, and more. |
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Third Place: Track-It
Sharon Lai, Polar Humenn, David Grandinetti, Keith Costello, James L. Howison, and Ryan Dick
Track-It provides a system to enable bags to know their own contents. Before Track-It, Track-It’s customers ‘managed’ the items in their bags through a hit-and-miss process of manual inspection, paper check-lists, laborious and error-ridden counts, or simply packed and hoped that everything they needed was in the bag. They suffered the pain and cost of forgetting and loosing value items, which they mistakenly thought were in their bags. |
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Entrepreneurial Spirit Award: Beater Bags
Nayantara Banerjee
Created by sewing two ribbed undershirts, commonly referred to as “beaters,” together in an innovative way, BeaterBags are the only reversible, machine-washable, customizable, and at the same time, hip, bags on the market. The company, BeaterBags, will be selling not only an accessory to a wardrobe, but an accessory to the lifestyle. |
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Deamer and Doers Award: Syracuse WET LCC
Andrew McNeill, Daniel Germano, Casey Miller, Daniel Raiffe, and Scott Yapp
WATER EQUIPMENT TRANSPORTATION, LLC (“WET”) will offer bulk water delivery service to college students in a way that is convenient for students. WET is unique to the industry in that it will not make customers sign a one year contract. Rather, customers will only have to pay for the products and service while they are at school. WET will rent water cooler units (“units”) and sell 5 gallon bulk water bottles (“BWB’s”) to students. WET will deliver the units and the bottles to the students’ residences and at the same time pick up empty bottles. |
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Creative Excellence: Funk N' Waffles
Adam Gold and Kyle Corea
Funk ‘n Waffles is a unique musical-culinary experience. At Funk ‘n Waffles customers have the opportunity to eat a breakfast food in a whole new light. Funk ‘n Waffles are stuffed with the finest natural ingredients ranging from delectable sweets to savory meats. |
The 2005 Winners
The 2005 semifinals and finals took place Friday and Saturday, April 22 and 23. Congratulations to all the teams involved. Here are the winners:
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First Place: TDX
(Click here to see the video)
Gary Jaye (iMBA)
Tax Deferred Exchange, LLC ("TDX") is a web based financial commerce platform, which brings together tax deferred real estate investors (1031 exchange buyers) with qualified Tenant-in-Common real estate investment offerings. TDX will become the industry leader with its first-to-market, cost savings service. |
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Second Place: SweetRack (Advanced Carrier Systems, LLC)
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Michael Defosse (MBA)
Bruce Gowing (MBA)
Steve Raymond (MBA)
Advanced Carrier Systems, LLC offers a complete line of motorcycle, ATV, and scooter carriers and related garments under the SweetRack brand. ACS designs and develops the carriers in-house and distributes in the US through a direct Internet approach and through a network of motorcycle dealers and aftermarket accessories distributors. ACS plans to expand through aggressive marketing to develop a brand and an image targeting primarily off-road enthusiasts, particularly in the Generation Y age group - a strategy unique to the industry.
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Third Place: Critical Communications, Inc (Click here to see the video)
Dr. Youngki Hwang (MBA)
Stuart Card (PhD)
Fred Tims
Michael Joseph (MBA)
William Chappell (ECS, MS)
Larry Ames
Critical Communications will be a spin-off small business, based upon the commercialization and sales of the Advanced Wireless Communications Controller (AWCC) product line. This wireless data communication solution preserves access to data and network services during periods of no connectivity and of intermittent, severely constrained connectivity, and provides optimization of all wireless links when they become available. The AWCC de-couples the relationship between your wireless tools and your wireless connection, allowing you to keep working with your data when your link stops working. |
Creative Excellence Award: KEYWEE
James Milton (Marketing)
Olaf Von Ramm (Finance)
Jillian Weiner (Finance)
Matt Ford (EEE)
Nick Kampman (SCM/EEE)
Michael Levy (Finance)
Keyweee, LLC is a registrar of Internet keywords called "Keyweees," which are alternatives to lengthy URLs and Internet domain names. Each unique "Keyweee" is a simple word or phrase that can be purchased and used by a company; web surfers will easily recall and jump to a company's web site(s) by typing in Keyweees using Keyweee Navigator software. Keyweee, LLC aims to be a leading provider of Keyword Navigation services while capturing market share from and serving as a substitute to Internet search engines. |
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Dreamer and Doer Award: Masterminds Unlimited, Inc.
Adam Calafrancesco (Env. Science & Fstry.)
Garrett Wilkin (ECS)
Yuhua Zhong (ECS)
Erick Phillips (Env. Science & Fstry.)
Dave Ries (Management)
The opportunity addressed by Masterminds Unlimited is capitalizing on the demand for new and improving navigation systems. Masterminds Unlimited proposes the next phase in navigation using digital images. We call this navigation with visual cues. Today's Navigation systems lack the ability to accurately describe landmarks, and other cues that are essential to navigation. By augmenting existing technology with digital imagery we will better serve the customer. |
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Entrepreneurial Spirit Award: Coffee Grounds Café
Anthony Viggiano (IST)
Thomas Simmons (SCM-SOM)
Coffee Grounds Cafe is a new millineum cafe where university students and local professionals form a relaxing, diverse and social atmosphere in which coffee, computers and the Internet merge. |
The 2004 Winners
The real winners were all 54 teams that entered, and certainly all sixteen of the finalists. However, we are proud to announce the following awards from the final rounds of the Syracuse Business Plan Competition this past Friday and Saturday.
The winners were
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First Prize ($25,000): One Click Video
- Matthew Dacey (Finance)
- Matthew Duffley
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Second Prize ($10,000) : RateMyClass.com
- Adam Peruta (New Media) Aprelle Watkins (New Media)
- Dave Camporelli (New Media)
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Third Prize ($5,000): CapturCam
- Brian Nelson , Jeremy Calandrino, Magdalena Chwaleba, Richard Reginelli
- Kimberly Salley
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Honorable Mention: LinuxBasedSystems.com -- Harrison Boyer, Phil Kennedy, Mike Bullock, Dave Smith and Rob Voigt
Creative Excellence: Independent Art Network -- Jonathan Graham, Fatima Eucabo and Stephen Harrell
Dreamer & Doer Award: Ice Cream Dream Cartoons -- Jake Jacobs and Jennifer Jacobs
Entrepreneurial Spirit Award:
- American Webcasting Company -- Aurelius Chaves, Christopher Fijall and Paul Arras
- JackWalleye.com -- Raphael Hamilton and Robert Borders
The 2003 winners ...
First Place ($25000 and consulting assitance from Ernst and Young and from Bond, Schoeneck, and King PLLC): Tanglewood Gardens (Don Stanton)
Second Place ($10000 and consulting assitance from Ernst and Young and from Bond, Shoenick and King): Scapewiz.Com (Jamie Keefer, Brian Robey, Toniel Speidel and Bill Gabrielli)
Third Place ($5000): Science Academy Schools (Bulent Cetinkaya, Metin Oguzmert, and Huseyin Polat)
Creative Excellence Award :TVReruns.Com (Liz Rippetoe, Leslie Coe, and Corey Marsh)
Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award (tie): Cookie Creations (Sandra Palestine & Maria Costanzo) & WLW (Wendy Wright and Tony Koschmann)
Dreamer and Doer Award Defense Shield: Collins White and Theresa Brigandi
The winners represented five different schools at Syracuse and included one non-profit enterprise. We know you share our pride in all of these students. A big thanks also for the great faculty upport we received, and especially from Sandra Hurd, Dave Wilemon, Clint Tankersley, Rhett Weiss, George Burman, Peter Koveos, Randy Elder, and Bill Walsh.
And the Spring 2002 winners ...
On April 29, the final Presentation round was held, and the prizes were awarded as follows:
First Place ($25,000): Hermes
Second Place ($15,000): Trident Productions
All other finalist team members received gift certificates for the retail store Best Buy.
Congratulations to the winning teams, and to all finalists, for their hard work in preparing for and participating in the Competition final round! The judges enjoyed their visit to Syracuse, and found the presentations and discussion stimulating and interesting.
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